Selvage-protector or cloth-guide



(No Model.)

- T. SULLIVAN.

SELVAGE PROTECTOR OR CLOTH GUIDE.

Pafiented Jan. 14, 1896.

PV'ibw-ssasi liwentor: T 15011110011,

UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE,

TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.-

SELVAG E-PROTECTOR OR CLOTH-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,0d5, dated January14., 1896.

Application filed September 30, 1895. Serial 1%. 564,077. (No model.)

To ail whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, of Fall River, county of Bristol,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inSelvage-Protectors or Cloth-Guides, of which the following description,in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specifica tion, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

As the cloth in a loom passes over the breastbeam to the clotlrrollshaft it is often wound unevenly thereupon, the ends of the roll ofcloth assuming a conical or irregular form, concave at one end andconvex at the other. This tends-to produce a damaged and irregularselvage, slack in some portions and strained in others. From this causeit frequently happens that a considerable portion of acut of cloth hasto be classed as seconds, entailing a loss upon the producer.

This invention has for its object the production of means for guidingthe cloth and protecting the selvage as it is wound into a roll, tocause the roll to have flat parallel ends, whereby stretching orslackening of the selvage is entirely prevented.

Figure 1 in front elevation centrally broken out, represents asufficient portion of a loom to be understood with my invention appliedthereto; and Fig, is a sectional view taken on the line 00 a, Fig. 1,looking toward the left.

The loom-frame A, cross-girl: A at the front of the frame, breast-beamB, sand-roller O, and shaft 0'' for the cloth V to be wound upon,mounted in the inclined supports C may be and are substantially as usualin looms as commonly constructed, and in Fig. 1 I have omitted thegreater part of the operative mechanism as having no bearing upon thisinvention.

Upon the cross-girt A opposite each end of the cloth-roll I have mountedstands a, slotted at a to receive bolts a by which they are adjustablysecured to the cross-girt, said stands being upturned at and providedeach with an inturned stud a". (See dotted lines Fig. 1.) A blade or armI) provided with a hub b on its outer side is mounted to rock on thestud c0 of each stand, each arm having secured to or integral therewitha branch b bent inward and enlarged at Z1 to form a counterpoise. Theblades I), thus free to rock on their supports, are held by thecounterpoises against the front of the cloth-roll shaft 0, with the fiatinner faces of the blades separated a distance equal to the width of thecloth, as shown in Fig. 1, and as the roll increases in diameter theblades guide the cloth and protect the selyages thereof, and as theblades rest against the ends of the roll each ply of the cloth isaccurately wound upon the preceding one in true cylindrical form. As theshaft G rises in its guides O owing to the increase in the diameter ofthe olothroll,- the blades 17 are rocked outwardly but still remain incontact with the shaft and continue to guide the cloth and protect theselvages.

When the roll of cloth is to be removed the blades are thrown forwardsufficiently to overcome the counterpoises and the shaft 0' is removed,and when a new shaft is inserted the blades are turned back against itand held there by the weight of the counterpoises Z1 as clearly shown inFig. 2.

As cloth varying in width for different cuts is made on the same loomthe blades must be adjusted correspondingly, and this adjustment can berapidly and easily effected by the attendant by means of the bolts 0?.

\Vhen the cloth-roll shaft is out of the loom the selvage-guides arealways in place and ready to be instantly moved into operative position.

I am aware that forked arms to embrace the cloth-roll shaft have beenhinged to the breastbeam or to some other part of the loom, to serve asselvage-guides, but the selvages often get caught in such guides, andfurthermore it is a troublesome operation to bring the rollshaft intooperative engagement with the guides when being put in place.

Should the guide-blades be unnecessary at times they can be instantlydetached from their supports, and in any event offer no obstacle to theremoval of the roll of cloth or the insertion of the new shaft.

I claim- In a loom, the cloth roll shaft, two adj ustable stands locatedbelow the shaft, said stands being upturned and having each an inturnedstud, a guide blade having a hub to name to this specification in thepresence of embrace the stud on each stand, and a bent two subscribingWitnesses. arm forming a part of each blade, and provided with acounterpoise, t0 normally retain TIMOTHY SULLIVAN. 5 the blades inengagement with the cloth r011 Vitnesses:

shaft, substantially as described. CHARLES 0. 000K,

In testimony whereof I have signed my HIRAM O. BORDEN.

